Learn how to use noise and masking to make stunning pixel sorted images using AE Pixel Sorter

friedpixels aka James Ramirez does a fantastic overview:

A look at the Stardust plugin for After Effects in comparison to the Trapcode Suite. This is the second explainer video I've ever made, so I hope you can look past my inexperience and enjoy the video. I'm just generally excited about Stardust and want to share that with the community. This is by no means a bash to the trapcode suite, anyone who knows my work knows that I live and breath that suite, this is just a comparison look.

Beautiful title sequence using Plexus by @Bit0un for @DTMCproduction

Fantastic animated collaboration using Paint & Stick by Ricardo Mendes and other amazing brazilian animators.

In this interview Mathias Möhl talks with Emil, known for his youtube channel Virgeo1228, about creating high quality stop motion movies with LEGO and Auto Lip-Sync.

David Lewandowski drops the next installment of his Going to the Store bad mocap series

Mettle Skybox Suite of plugins will be exclusively available as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud membership. Adobe is targeting to release the integrated functionality before the end of the year. You can expect to hear and see lots of exciting news before the end of the year.

Check out our exclusive interview with super-star designer and all around awesome guy Kim Holm.

Lovely work using Prism, BAO Boa, Newton, Ray Dynamic Texture, Joysticks 'n Sliders and more.

Beautiful design and animation using EaseCopy, Particular and more by Jr.Canest

Awesome tutorial on how to use #C4D and Connect Layers, Layer Stalker, Easy Bake and Plexus in #AfterEffects to create FUI elements easily.

School of Motion interviewed aescripts + aeplugins author Zack Lovatt about what it's like to be an #AfterEffects tool developer.

Opener animated using Ouroboros by Blake Fawley

Pretty amazing new machine learning driven character animation from Univ of Edinburgh and Method Studios

Fun spot using Newton, Flow, Overlap and more by Eric Lassen

Adobe released an update to the 2017 version of After Effects CC. This update, version 14.2.1, includes significant performance enhancements as well as bug fixes, and is recommended for all users.

Nice recap of a main theme at the Blend conference on how side projects can have many benefits.

Opener created using Ouroboros by CLAYPOT

Beautiful design and execution by Pandayoghurt

In this one minute tutorial we use the automatic beat detection of BeatEdit for Premiere Pro to create markers at the beats of your music and then import the markers in After Effects. These markers are very helpful when timing your animations ti fit nicely to the music.